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American Airlines spokesman Bruce Hicks said Tuesday that fewer than 40 percent of those getting notices cruise ratings will lose their jobs. Hicks said federal law requires cruise ratings the company to notify anyone whose position could change, including those who could get "bumped" by more-senior employees whose jobs are eliminated or outsourced.
Over the summer American accepted slightly cruise ratings smaller cost-cutting cruise ratings measures as it negotiated new labor contracts, and it agreed to give bonuses to flight attendants and ground workers who quit. So far 1,800 flight attendants and 800 ground workers cruise ratings have applied cruise ratings to take the money and leave.
Layoff notices cruise ratings went to nearly 3,000 workers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where a maintenance facility will close, and nearly 3,000 more at a base in Tulsa, Okla. Also receiving notices were about 1,200 workers in Miami, 1,100 in New York and Newark, N.J., 900 in Chicago, and smaller numbers elsewhere.
Separately, the leader of the pilots' cruise ratings union blasted the company, saying it is "paying lip service" to negotiating a contract while using the bankruptcy process to wring punitive cost-cutting concessions from pilots.
Eight other labor groups approved cruise ratings long-term contracts that will help AMR cut annual labor spending by about $1 billion. Pilots, however, voted overwhelmingly against the company's last contract cruise ratings offer, and a federal bankruptcy judge allowed American to impose new pay and working rules on pilots.
The acting president of the Allied Pilots Association, Keith Wilson, said in a message to members that he would meet this week with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and other senior officials in the Obama administration and Congress. cruise ratings The union has asked federal officials to approve steps that could eventually lead to a strike, but that permission hasn't been granted.
Still, pilots are holding a strike-authorization vote. And according to the company, they are calling cruise ratings in sick more often than usual, contributing to an increase in canceled flights. American has trimmed its September and October schedule by up to 2 percent to make sure it has enough pilots to operate flights.
Hunter Keay, an analyst for Wolfe Trahan cruise ratings Co., said he does not think the threat of cancellations will lead travelers to avoid American. But he said there has been "a clear deterioration in labor relations" at American.
An American merger with US Airways Group Inc. could produce a bigger airline with more revenue and more labor peace, Keay said. US Airways has lobbied cruise ratings for a merger but American executives have been reluctant.